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Patented Sept. 7,1897.

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UNITED STATES PATENT EEIcE.0

Olli/IRL *1S HENRY PALMER AND JOHN IVILLIAM DENMEAD, OF AKR-ON, OHIO.

STRIP PRINTING AND PERFORATING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 589,570, dated September 7, 1897. Application filed April 8,1897. Serial No. 631,263. {No model.)

To all whom zZ'; may con/cera:

Be it known that we, CHARLES HENRY PALMER and JOHN WILLIAM DENMEAD, citi4 zens of the United States, residing at Akron, in the county of Summit and State of Ohio, have invented certain neu7 and useful lmprovements in Strip Printing and Perforating Machines; and We dohereby declare the following to be a description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the saine., reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

Our invention relates to that class of printing machinery that receives the paper or card in the form of anarrou strip or ribbon and perforates the same by one or more indentures at predetermined points in its length, from which it passes over a friction-roller that is provided with means of lateral adjustment for changing the location of the indentures in the strip of paper or cardboard Inaterial with relation to the printing-type that may be in use upon the printing-roller, upon which strip is to be printed in colors any desired matter for labels or boxes for which the saine is used.

The object of our invention is to simplify the construction and increase the efficiency and perfection of operation of a machine designed for this purpose.

Our invention contemplates the embodiment of these improvements in a machine which may be used separately or combined with perforating or box-making machinery that will receive the perforated printed paper as it is fed forward in a continuous band in regular lengths for the formation of the box or label, which latter combined machine will form the subject of another application filed simultaneously herewith, Serial No. (332,791, filed April 19, 1897, for a box-making machine.

Wve do not claim to be the original inventors of the printing and ink'ing or roller features oi the machine, but confine ourselves more especially to the mechanism shown in the devices for perforatin g and feed ing the m aterial to secure the printing thereon at desired points between the perforations or spaces,

from which is subsequentlyto be formed boxes or labels, and our devices enable us to feed forward at a rapid rate in a continuous band the material and insure the proper location thereon of the printed matter in various colors and the correct registry or automatic delivery in the continuous rapid movement of the material therethrough Without any liability of displacementor misprintof the same.

The accompanying drawings represent the automatic perforating device that moves forward with the material and the adj ustablc perforator and means of adjusting the material to regulate the location of the perforation with relation to the printing-roller and the design thereon. This perforation, as before stated, may be a single aperture in the center of the Width of the paper or cardboard, or one on each side, for the mere purpose of feeding forward to insure the relative placing of the print or provide the means of adjustment of the position of the design or printed matter upon the material in relation to its position in the formation of boxes, as shown in said application, Serial No. 632,791, or it may be a series of indentures or perforations for the pur-pose of feeding it forward in proper adjustment and which at the same time will serve the purpose of facilitating the preparation of the parts when used as labels or otherwise.

j In the drawings, Figure i is a sectional side elevation; Fig. 2, a plan View of the perfo rating device; Fig. 3, a sectional side elevation of same; Fig. el., a modification of the perforating-die.

ln the drawings, A represents the main supporting-frame, secured on the table by bolts A2.

B is the,horizontnlly-reciprocating perforating-die lever; l", the performing-arm; B2, its adjustable performing-die; B3, the lever crank-pin.

B is a modification of the performing-die; I), the die-ad j usting slot; h, die-securin g bolt; b2, lever-bolt; b3, the lever-bolt securing-trunnion forming a part eating die-plate h4; b5, the die-guiding plate.

C represents the die, secured in the reciprocating die-plate b4; O', the die-opening; D, the adjustable feed-regulating roller; D', its securing-frame; D2, its adjusting-rod held in its supporti Iig-frame D3 by means oi bolts D4, fastened to the table; It d2, adjusting thumb-screivsg d, adjusting screw-thread;

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(I3, shield guide-spring; d", its securing-bolt; E, the die-actuatingcrank-wheel, IC', its supporting-arm secured to the main frame. F is the guiding-roll; G, the feeding and pressure cylinder; G', its elastically-faced surface; II, the printing-roll; II', its type printing-face.

J represents the paper or cardboard material which is being operated on; J', the perforation madein. the strip; J3, the strip pressure-spring.

`In operation the material to be acted upon enters the machine at the surface of the table beneath the reciprocating die and passes over the adjusting wheel or roller D under the shield-spring d3, thence over the guidingroll F to the feeding pressure-cylinder G, that is provided with an elastic surface G', which carries it beneath the roller II, pressing it against its type printing-face II'. From thence it passes outwardly through guide-rolls to any desired point.

The various inking-rolls (not lettered) do not form a part of this application.

As the material passes beneath the reciprocating perforating'die, which is actuated by means of its crank B3, secured to the wheel E, its reciprocating vibratory arm is caused to vibrate on its trunnion-bolt b2, and its perforating-die will perforate the material and at the same time move forward in unison with the movement of the paper. The revolution of the crank\vheel E is timed by its gearing connection with its actuating-wheel on the roller-shaft F and causes the perforating-lever, with its reciprocating de-plate b, to move forward when its die is within the aperture in the paper, and as the crank-pin rises in its revolution the die is withdrawn from the paper and its arm B will move back with the reciprocating die-plate without interfering with the forward movement of the material as it is advanced forward bythe rollers in passing through the machine.

In order to change the location of the perforations, the feed -regulating roller D is moved backward or forward by means of its thumb-screws d2 (Z2.

Several printin g-cylin ders may be provided in the use of different colors or designs, and the accurate registry or placement of the paper forprinting thereon at the desired point is insured by the use of our invention, and the material as thus prepared maybe fed onward to the box1naking machine, as heretofore stated, or wound upon large spools or coils to be used .for any purpose desired.

By changing the form of the die labels known as tags may be formed from the material as it passes onward in the usuat manner.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a strip printing and perforating machine, a horizontally-reciprocating die B2, secured to its actuating-lever B, means for actua-tin g the lever to cause the die to perforate the strip and move forward therewith during the operation ofv perforating and to rise and reciprocate back to make a new perforation as the strip is advanced in a continuous movement substantially as shown and described.

2. In a strip printing and perforating machine a horizontally-reciprocating perforating-die combined with an adjustable regulating guide-roll and the printing-rolls whereby the perforations may be varied or changed to secure proper relation of the same to the printing-rolls and the design thereon su bstantiall y as shown and described.

3. The combination with the printing-cytinder and its adjustable roll D and guidingroll F of a reciprocating arm and its vertically-adjustable perforating-die B' pivoted thereon to perforate the material as it moves forward to the printing-cylinder substantially as shown and described.

4. In a printing-machine `the combination of the reciprocating die, its vibrating and actuating arm B7 the guiding-roll D and 'adjusting-rod D2, the guide roll F, the feeding pressure-cylinderG and elastically-faced su rface G', with the printing-roll H and its type printing-face II' operating substantially as shown and described.

5. The horizontally-reciproeatin g perforating-die adjustably secured to its actuatinglever B operating on a continuously-moving material for the purpose of perforating the same as it moves for ward in combination with the shield guide-spring d3, the horizontallyadjustable guide-roll D the frame D' its adjusting-rod Dzin the supporting-frame Dand adjusting thumb-screws d2 d2.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES HENRY PALMER. JOHN VILLIAM DENMEAI).

Witnesses as to Chas. II. Palmer:

W M. PIERCE, S. MCCREADY.

fitnesses as to John XV. Denniead:

M. H. COLAHAN, CHARLES COLAHAN.

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